Delicious Death

The Clocks
To my old friend MARIOwith happy memories of delicious food at the CAPRICE

UK

Collins, London, Nov. 1963

Woman's Own, Nov.9-Dec.14 1963

US

Dodd Mead, New York, 1964

Cosmopolitan, Jan. 1964

Plot

As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floor. What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Sheila clearly remembered having heard a cuckoo clock strike three o'clock. Yet, the four other clocks in the living room all showed the time as 4.13. Even more strangely, only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house...